A little pole. Do you think people who did not get formal education in development or Computer Sciences should be allowed to do development?

Well, since I'm self-taught and consider myself to be quite proficient, yes, I think they should. Additionaly, I have coworkers who have master's degree in CS, but still shouldn't code. And last, there's just too much demand for developers, it's not gonna work anyway

As someone with a physics degree who hopes to be a developer, I hope so!

@Kolyness but do you think it's just the ego speaking? Also don't you think a lot of people jump into being a dev for the money, but are very bad at it. I know many people like that.

Yes, why can't they?

@alandemaria well would you want you bus driver without a license?

They should definitely be allowed to code but not engineer/design systems.

@elvynmejia what about code in car GPs software? Or airplane software?

For mission critical systems I think you ought to have an engineer with cs baground and credentials.

Some of the best devs I've seen have no degrees. Absolutely opposed to barring self-taught developers from coding along side their degrees peers.

@skein I would want a bus driver who knows how to drive a bus, with or without license.

Having gone for my degree purely for a raise and developing for many many years before, I can say that they both have positive points. The trial and error experience on the tech side added to the project management experience of work covered everything the first 2 to 3 years of the degree taught me but then the degree does force you to focus on areas you may not have or even may not have wanted to look into which is good for giving you a broader outlook on the field. If course that also depends on where you study I guess... Having recently interviewed someone just out of varsity who definitely had the qualifications for the job on paper, I can say that I'm tending more towards favouring experience over qualifications though. But then it's always gonna be a case to case decision so I don't think you could ever make an argument to negate one or the other.

It's a very hypothetical question, because how would you enforce a ban for those with no CS degree? Should the police kick in doors of suspects and go "What's all this, then? A Raspberry Pi enthusiast coding Python in his garage without a license. That'll be 5 years of hard labour in the chain gang!"?

https://youtube.com/watch/...

See the following true statements:
degree != knowledge
degree != skills
my_degree == chemical_engineeering
my_current_job == software_engineer
do_i_code? == true

No they should not. Because if they don't have a degree, the codes won't work. Plus the computer might explode. And how can you trust a person who doesn't need a planned out syllabus, able to learn for themselves, have no debt, and don't have a varsity jacket? Just how? Why would you want a person who spends hours on YouTube looking at Bucky Roberts videos instead of Pewdiepie? It's heresy no? Plus, people who have degree don't use stackoverflow at all. They know everything right out of college. Everything. And why would you let a person change his life around by coding because that's less job for you, and dev jobs are limited right? I think I made by point.

I can't tell who is trolling in this rant